President Eisenhower meeting with National Security Training Commission, 1953

Object summary

Title: President Eisenhower meeting with National Security Training Commission, 1953
Object ID: GCP-00000326
Date made: 1953-12-15
Place made: United States, District of Columbia, Washington, White House
Maker: International News Photos, Inc.; Walston, Ed
Object type: Photograph
Major collection: MIT History
Named collection: Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view: No

Description

Karl Taylor Compton, standing, right, attends meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of the National Security Training Commission. Text on recto reads "NSTC-1953". Stamps on verso read "President's Office" and "M.I.T. Historical Collections, received from Mrs. K.T. Compton, date Nov. 1975". Original Credit Line: Ed Walston, International News Photos.

Original Caption: "President Gets Atomic-Age U.M.T. Plan Washington, D.C....President Eisenhower is shown as he met with the National Security Training Commission at the White House yesterday. The commission gave the chief executive an atomic age universal military training plan which would become effective on January 1st, 1955, with the induction of 100,000 18-year-olds. The project would replace the draft. Seated are the president and Gen. Julius Ochs Adler, commission chairman. Standing (from left): Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid; Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain; Warren Atherton and Dr. Karl Compton. W.12.15.53 Photo by Ed Walston".